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  • verb Present participle of decouple.
  • noun The act or process by which something is decoupled.

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Examples

  • To believe in decoupling you have to believe in a very simple idea: Despite all the bad that can happen in a downward or sideways cycle, there's always a bull market somewhere.

    A Return To Decoupling Richard Kang 2010

  • To believe in decoupling you have to believe in a very simple idea: Despite all the bad that can happen in a downward or sideways cycle, there's always a bull market somewhere.

    Diversification Is Critical With Emerging Markets Richard Kang 2010

  • If someone doesn't want to believe in decoupling, fine.

    Diversification Is Critical With Emerging Markets Richard Kang 2010

  • If someone doesn't want to believe in decoupling, fine.

    A Return To Decoupling Richard Kang 2010

  • Yet these policies are sometimes decoupled from actual enforcement, and such decoupling is more likely in politically conservative districts.

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • Whilst America's economy sinks, the Rusian Chinese Indian economies continue to grow Europes economy has stabilised, the once poweful engine of the worlds economy is sputtering to a halt the rest of the world is rapidly decoupling from the USA. and continues its upward march.

    More than three-quarters rate economic conditions poor 2008

  • Dubs, using 1D NOE and spin decoupling experiments.

    Kurt Wüthrich - Autobiography 2003

  • At the beginning of the financial downturn it was thought that so-called "decoupling" - a lack of economic links between the global South and the industrialised world - might protect developing countries.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Peter Guest 2012

  • Though the positive news wasn't enough to fully boost the Cable it did keep the USD/GBP above the psychological 1.42 level and could be telegraphing an overall shift in sentiment toward the GBP over the EUR for a longer term decoupling of the two economies.

    FXstreet.com 2010

  • That was "decoupling" -- the idea that a U.S. slowdown would have little effect on the rest of the world.

    Rio board might rack up points 2008

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  • "Significantly, California adopted regulations so that utility company profits are not tied to how much electricity they sell. This is called 'decoupling.' It also allowed utilities to take a share of any energy savings they help consumers and businesses achieve."

    Salon, Why we never need to build another polluting power plant, by Joseph Romm, July 28, 2008

    July 29, 2008